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Re: Burmese Sitting Position

The Yoga Garden videos are great, I found them a while back and was disappointed when they stopped posting them. They offer some of the clearest, no-nonsense yoga instruction I've encountered. Doesn't hurt that the guy who makes them is easy on the eyes!

Anyway, off the top of my head, in terms of useful yoga poses for sitting:

Standing Forward Bend is a great stretch for loosening up the hamstrings. Hamstrings tend to be or get 'tight' and can prevent ease, cause pain, and reduce flexibility in sitting postures. The great thing about Standing Forward Bend is that it's a simple pose you can do at any flexibility level. Just stretch as far forward/downward as you can, until you start feeling the stretch happen.

Royal Pigeon Pose is my favorite hip opening pose. Inflexible hips are frequently the source of problems when trying to maintain seated postures. (I like to take the pose depicted on the linked page and then lower myself down so that I am laying over my front leg with my head touching the floor. The further down you go, the more you feel the stretch in your hips. The full expression of the pose also includes grabbing your back leg like this, which is a great quad stretch but may be difficult if you're not already flexible in the hips and legs, which is the point of doing this pose in the first place :wink: .)